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Over half of docs have received EHR incentive payments

By Joseph Conn | May 22, 2013 | Basic Web

Key federal programs to boost electronic health-record system use passed a milestone last month as more than half of physicians and other “eligible professionals” have received incentive payments for attesting to the adoption of a certified EHR system.
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Bill takes aim at reform law's rural-floor provision

By Jessica Zigmond | May 21, 2013 | Basic Web

New legislation from Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) is welcome news to 20 state hospital associations working to eliminate a contentious hospital wage-index provision in the reform law.
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Clinicians often poor at predicting medication adherence

By Melanie Evans | May 21, 2013 | Basic Web

Patients do not always take prescriptions as instructed and doctors cannot always tell who has lapsed, with potentially harmful and costly consequences.
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Reform Update: Research targeting post-acute costs applauded

By Maureen McKinney | May 20, 2013 | Basic Web

The CMS center charged with testing new payment and delivery models has pinpointed post-acute care as a high-cost area in dire need of novel new approaches, and experts in the field are applauding the move.
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Exclusion efforts | OIG pushes for monthly blacklist cross-check

By Joe Carlson | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine

Amid looming shortages in healthcare workers, one branch of the federal government is ramping up aggressive efforts to keep some of them far away from patients.
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Late News: Exceptions are the rule | Hospital payment system full of adjustments

By Rich Daly | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine

Congress' nonpartisan investigative arm reported that 91% of hospitals paid by Medicare receive some dispensation or add-on to the program's standard payment system.
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Favorable direction? | As prices drop, CBO lowers spending prediction

By Melanie Evans | May 18, 2013 | Print Magazine

It's different this time. That's what the bulls say when stock prices soar as a way of discounting warnings that what goes up must always come down.
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CBO's Medicare estimates on par with White House figures

By Jessica Zigmond | May 17, 2013 | Basic Web

The CBO estimates that the policies in the president's fiscal 2014 budget proposal would curb Medicare spending by about $364 billion over 10 years.
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Reform Update: ACA foes, supporters trade volleys

By Jessica Zigmond | May 17, 2013 | Basic Web

Democrats and Republicans played another game of political tennis this week when House Republicans served up another vote to fully repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and Democrats returned a litany of reasons why the 2010 law is good for Americans.
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